(5 Jul 2024)
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PART MUST CREDIT TAKASHI TACHIBANA – NO ARHIVE/MANDATORY CREDIT
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tokyo – 1 July 2024
1. Billboard for Tokyo governor election campaign posters
2. Pan of posters showing shiba-inu dog
3. Poster showing AI robot
4. Person looks at campaign posters on the billboard
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Mayumi Noda, office worker:
“They are distasteful. As a Japanese citizen I feel embarrassed.”
6. Person looks at campaign posters
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Mayumi Noda, office worker:
“It’s not just the act is questionable, the feeling I have is closer to anger.”
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kunihiko Imada, plumber, 59 years old:
“It’s clear that there is an organization that is clearly trying to sabotage the elections. The people of Tokyo are not thinking about these foolish things, they are thinking seriously about metropolitan and national politics.”
9. People walking past campaign poster billboard
10. Posters of serious candidates
11. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kunihiko Imada, plumber, 59 years old:
“Shouldn’t there be some kind of punishment for these fools?”
12. Tilt down of candidate with Joker face calling for the end of culling animals
13. AI robot poster
14. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kunihiko Imada, plumber, 59 years old:
“On the other hand, I suppose posters like these in some respects have attracted attention to this election. So, I now hope people will cast the one vote they have seriously.”
TAKASHI TACHIBANA – NO ARHIVE/MANDATORY CREDIT
Tokyo – 20 June 2024
15. Takashi Tachibana, the leader of NHK party, admires posters of his pet dog on the election campaign billboard
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tokyo – 2 July 2024
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16. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Ryosuke Nishida, Nihon University professor and expert in politics and media:
“I think they are just seeking attention. They cannot attract the same level of attention on Youtube as there are so many other people posting wacky videos. So they are using this Tokyo gubernatorial election to attract rather underserved attention.”
TAKASHI TACHIBANA – NO ARHIVE/MANDATORY CREDIT
Tokyo – 20 June 2024
17. Tachibana with his dog at the campaign billboard with UPSOUND: ‘I’m sure there are people out there who think this is a foolish act. But even if that’s the case, I hope they take interest in the election.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tokyo – 2 July 2024
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18. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Ryosuke Nishida, Nihon University professor and expert in politics and media:
“The reason why some people find these performances amusing is because they think their objections are not taken into consideration by politicians and existing parties or reflected in their politics. I suppose you can say this is in a sense an expression to highlight the dysfunction of existing political parties.”
TAKASHI TACHIBANA – NO ARHIVE/MANDATORY CREDIT
Tokyo – 20 June 2024
19. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Takashi Tachibana, NHK party leader:
“You can see here Ms. Koike, Ms Renho and Mr Ishimaru – they are seriously campaigning in the election. But we just can’t seem to get wide media coverage. We therefore have to do this kind of wacky stuff.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tokyo – 1 July 2024
20. Various of square displaying banner advertising election on July 7
21. Various of people walking
STORYLINE:
Tokyo will elect a new governor this weekend, but residents say publicity stunts have overtaken serious campaigning to a degree never seen before.
Campaign posters are showing anything from pets to an AI character and a man practicing his golf swing.
It’s impossible to ignore.
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